Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Golden finally sold it, he told the committee, for $315 to $325 a ton, to the Holland Furnace Co. of Holland, Mich., only four hours' drive from K-F's Willow Run plant. The constant selling and reselling of the same steel sometimes gets very confusing, Golden confessed. Said he: "I recall a gentleman came up to the office and asked us to come out and inspect some steel, and we needed that type, and we went out to our own warehouse and looked at our own steel...
...space of four days the W.S.S.F. relief drive has gone more than half way toward its proposed goal of $20,000, with a total to date of something over $15,000. While such striking proof of student enthusiasm toward an urgent cause seems unusually favorable, one fact remains far less encouraging: contributions from the Faculty and Graduate Schools have been shamefully small. More than $12,000 of the current total has come from undergraduates...
...slip quietly into the nearest wastebasket. Admittedly some of these letters went out late, and admittedly graduate students are on the average poorer per capita than undergraduates. But for the full professors and associate professors, who can certainly afford a reasonable contribution, any excuse is indeed small. The drive includes the entire University with the single exception of the Business School, and there is no reason why the College should support so disproportionate a share...
Ideally, an increased effort should be made to contact more graduate students and members of the Faculty in person. Failing this, it is up to these people to acknowledge their part in the W.S.S.F. drive on their own conscience, and to realize that a form letter can carry just as much urgency as the most persuasive door-to-door solicitor...
...conceded that it was possible the College might raise an additional $1000 in the next few days, but maintained that the rest of the University held the success or failure of the drive in its power...